Know Your Profs: Candace Fertile on kangaroo pouches and moving foodKnow Your Profs is an ongoing series of profiles on the instructors at Camosun College. Every issue we ask a different instructor at Camosun the same 10 questions in an attempt to get to know them a little better. Do you have an instructor that you want to see interviewed in the paper? Email editor@nexusnewspaper.com […] Continue Reading |
Camosun Comic Arts Festival shows off college comics programCamosun College is home to not only the first Comics & Graphic Novels design program in North America, but also to a showcase festival that comes out of the program. And that festival is gearing up to happen again in April. This year, the Camosun Comic Arts Festival (CCAF) will take place on April 16 […] Continue Reading |
Camosun’s deer and cougars: is it time to be concerned?A puma crept the length of Foul Bay Road on swift paws. Silently it crept through the crisp early-morning air in search of its new prey until, finally, it pounced… right into an empty parking lot. A parking lot on Camosun’s Lansdowne campus. The incident took place in October of 2015, while campus security was conducting […] Continue Reading |
What’s Going On: March 16 to 29, 2016Until Thursday, March 31 Get distinguished If you know of a Camosun alumnus who is worthy of some recognition, the college is seeking nominations for just that. Their Distinguished and Promising Alumni Awards will be presented at the annual Graduation Ceremonies on June 16 and 17; deadline for nominating alumni is March 31. Head to […] Continue Reading |
The Bi-weekly Gamer: Returning to the throneFilling the shoes of anyone in any job is hard. When you are set to replace all-star mid laner Enrique Cedeño Martinez (xPeke, now retired), it’s more daunting than ever imagined. Luckily for League of Legends team Fnatic, great scouting and coaching produced one of the most underrated mid laners to come out of Europe […] Continue Reading |
Lit Matters: The storied truths of Tom King“The truth about stories is, that’s all we are,” wrote Thomas King, a Canadian novelist, essayist, and native-rights activist who uses humour as often as he uses polemic to bring awareness to the sociopolitical and historical context of native peoples in North America. King grew up in California, the son of a Cherokee father and […] Continue Reading |
Art Battle brings competitive painting to VictoriaIn October 2014, Art Battle—an event focused around live, competitive painting—made its local debut under the guidance of Angela Hillier, an artist who had just moved to Victoria from Ottawa. After completing her Fine Arts degree, she had participated in and begun volunteering at Art Battle in Ottawa, and she brought what she learned to […] Continue Reading |
Quebec’s Radio Radio expands horizons with new albumQuebec hip-hoppers Radio Radio have expanded their Francophone horizons with their newest album, Light the Sky, and the fun, high-energy duo says that the results show their sound moving in a different direction. “The album was fun,” says Jacques Doucet, one half of Radio Radio. “We wanted to go to a different genre, we had […] Continue Reading |
Education barriers: Is Camosun doing enough for students with disabilities?“It basically made me feel like shit.” After years of hearing concerns from students about how Camosun College deals with students who have disabilities, I’m finally sitting down face to face with a student and getting their story, and this is how that student—who has autism—explains to me they felt after a run-in with a […] Continue Reading |
Know Your Profs: D. Bradley Muir strives for authenticity, not product developmentKnow Your Profs is an ongoing series of profiles on the instructors at Camosun College. Every issue we ask a different instructor at Camosun the same 10 questions in an attempt to get to know them a little better. Do you have an instructor that you want to see interviewed in the paper? Maybe […] Continue Reading |
